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Mac Jones, Bailey Zappe and the rudderless future of the New England Patriots

COMMENTARY

Bill Belichick could have passed George Halas to become the second-winningest coach in NFL history with a win over the Chicago Bears Monday night.

Instead, Belichick helped deliver a season-altering mortification that ranks right up there with the most absurd evenings of his tenure in New England.

Where to begin with what was an atrocious night of football and personnel management at Gillette Stadium? We witnessed the return of the defensive “bogeymen,” shredded by Justin Fields (179 yards passing, 82 yards rushing), who looked more like Michael Vick than the Kordell Stewart the second-year quarterback was trending to become.